Hate to wing in from left field with these things boys, but this was the most apt thing I read re-the England game. Living in Ireland, I saw all this, exactly as the man says. The trick is to watch the game on the English media while recording the Irish media. The one invariably drifts off into glossin over things, while the Irish presenters, especially Giles and Dunphy, can be much nearer the truth on most occasions. Sometimes the post match analysis on RTE can resemble a full-blown domestic row, and it's always entertaining, even if it slips sometimes into becoming slightly Anglophobic.
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The Adebayour telephone incident was later, and was nothing, I agree, but Dunphy raving about the inadequacies of the the English midfield with Giles stumping up the occasional telling ball with his usual dead-pan delivery is something to behold, and much more educational and informed than Shearer, Chiles, Keegan or Hanson could ever be. Praise, insight and venom in the same breath.. both of them. With Souness being shouted down in the middle of them, and presenter Bill H refereeing. Brilliant tv.

HThe Adebayour telephone incident was later, and was nothing, I agree, but Dunphy raving about the inadequacies of the the English midfield with Giles stumping up the occasional telling ball with his usual dead-pan delivery is something to behold, and much more educational and informed than Shearer, Chiles, Keegan or Hanson could ever be. Praise, insight and venom in the same breath.. both of them. With Souness being shouted down in the middle of them, and presenter Bill H refereeing. Brilliant tv. http://
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